EIGHT HOURS' MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3689, 29 July 1886, Page 4

EIGHT HOURS' MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND.

In Scotland a movement for shorter hours of labour gains ground. In Lanarkshire largo mass meetings Lave been held at which tho moßt enthusiastic resolutions were passed m favour of a system of eight hours a day. A constitution for a now Larnarkshire Miners' Union has been adopted, each man pledging himself to contribute 14d the first week vi. .'. Id each week after. The executive committee of tho Amalgamated Bociety of Railway Servantß for Scotland have issued petition sheets to those on tha threo principal railways. The proposals are stated to be made m tho interests alike of tho employers and the employed : " Firstly, that tho working day be ten hours insteadof twelvo for the following grades of tho service — viz., engine-drivers, firemen, yardsmon, passenger goods, pilot guards, brakesmen, marshsilmcn, shunters, pointsmen, signalmen, passenger porters, ticket collectors and oxaminers, parcel clerks, and others employed on platforms of stations ; second, that all time wrought each day m excess of ten hours be paid at the rate of time and a quarter ; third, that each day be paid for separately j fourth, that all Sunday duty be reduced to the lowest po?sible limit, and bo paid for at double the ordinary rato." The masons of Edinburgh have collected statistics of their trado which show that over 91 per cent of those working m the trade are m favour of adopting an eight hours day.